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Meanings of eery in English

Inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening.

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Examples for "eerie"
1
She heard eerie sounds coming, as she thought, from within the house.
The new yorker
2
The rush of the stream in the hollow had an eerie sound.
Greatheart
3
At that moment she had an eerie feeling that something wasn't right.
Ghosts
4
Walk among the eerie machines and mannequins of this subversive director's work.
The Guardian
5
The question startled me for the almost eerie precision of its accuracy.
The Last Ship
Usage of eery in English
1
It was like some eery fantasy, born of an overwrought brain.
The Promise / A Tale of the Great Northwest
2
Have patience, sweet bird, whom I shall soon take to an eery nest.
The Grey Cloak
3
The place was eery with the ghost of dead effort; but it pleased him.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
4
It was while bending over them, examining, that again he heard the eery chant.
The Night-Born
5
In every message to Congress, in eery proclamation to the people, he made it prominent.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 / From Lincoln to Garfield, wit...
6
His cry and eery thunder are the very voice of the summer twilight to me.
Roof and Meadow
7
Half asleep, he heard a wild and eery chant.
The Night-Born
8
Breathtaking landscapes While out there, you encounter eery but breathtaking landscapes that will haunt you.
The South African
9
The small singing of the wind in whin and heather came from a thin, eery world.
Foes
10
On the streets nearby the anger of the days before had turned to an eery quiet.
The Guardian
11
If the half-light before had been full of eery terror, it was naught to the blackness now.
The Helmet of Navarre
12
He was an eery fellow, too.
Salute to Adventurers
13
A melodious whistling note rose high somewhere in the depths of the forest and trailed off into eery silence.
Creatures of Vibration
14
All the way, all the afternoon, all the wakeful night, she was in an eery state of icy, numb exaltation.
The Unwilling Vestal
15
An uncommon sound, half croak, half cry, which only hill dwellers know, but 'tis an eery noise in the wilderness.
Salute to Adventurers
16
Somewhere, a good way off, there was a thin, thready, broken strain of metallic clinking and clanking-aneery ghost-chimeringing.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm / His Plight and other Plights
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